Bale-tying machine



PATENT. OFFICE.

AUGUST sri-linnn, or HoMEvvoon, ILLINOIS.

{,'VBAL-TYING MACHINE.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,191, dated January 4, 1881.v

I Application led'September'rQi, 1889. (No model.) I

To all whom may-concern:

Be it known that LjAUGUST-i SQEINER, of Homewood," in the county of Gool and State of Illinois, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement. in Bale-Tying Machines,

of which the followingis aspecitication.

In., securing bales b y wire bands rthe ends of which 'are fastenedl by twisting them .to-

gether, with the machines heretofore usedit has beeuifthe custom to draw thewire as tight.

. as possible by hand through the slots vof the tying-machine; bu-t'this can only'be done imperfectly-.and consequently the bales are allowed to expandqconsifderably by ,reason of thelooseness of the.wire.,f-'Thi's'expansion notonly enlarges. vthe bales, so 'that they 'require moreroom for transportation, but, being very suddenlinitsaction, it strains'and often breaks the wires or'pnlls out thefastenings. y

. Now, itis th object'of my invention to pro-A duce a bale-tying machine fortwisting together the ends ofwire bands, which will have means,- for drawing the wire tight before the ends are .1.twisted, and will be so constructed that it can be easily removed from the bale after the twisting has been effected. vMy machine at the same time is stronger and more durable in construction than that heretofore-used, has

-mea'ns for guiding the-wires throughout the Alength of the twist, and makes a more secure lock.

My invention consists in the several novel devices and combinations `.ofjdevices employed by me, as fully hereinafteexplained, and'v pointed out by the claims.

loathe accompanying.drawings, forming 'apart hereof, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the machine with the vtightening-lever in position for drawing' the wire .taut before the twist is made, the twist, however, being shown, for' convenience offillustration, as completed; Fig. 2, an edge elevation ofl the machine with the crank-brace removed and the tightening-lever thrown down; Fig. 3, a sectionalview through the slots of the machine.; Fig. 4, a view of .one of the end holding plates, the end of the jour-y nal-box and one of the c'urved holding-spikes being shown in dotted lines; and Fig. 5, a sectional view throughv a portion of the frame, showing the construction of the spring-catch. Like letters denote corresponding parts in all five figures.

Athe same.

is the frame of the machine, made preferably i'n. two' parts clamped together, and forming the bearing a for` the shaft B. The shaft B is turned by a crank-brace, C, secured to the. outer end ot' the saine, while the inner end of the shaft B carries a bevel cog-wheel, D. The frame A has laterally-projecting boxes E F .at its ends, which boxes lreceive the ends of a shaft, G, counectingthem, and abutting endwise against shoulders b in said boxes.

` The shaft Gr`hasv a bevel-gear, H, cast therey. wheel H, where the slot is contracted laterally,

.-asshownby c, to the width of one wire, so that two wires cannot turn ltherein past'y each other. '-The boxes E F are provided' with slotted steel plates d d', the slots e of, which are also Scontracted to i the size cfa single wire. The slots e of the platesd dand those of the boxes are arranged obliquely,l ais-shown in Fig. 4, and the holding-spikes'f` of themachine are f curved, as shown, the Aobject being to allow the-machine to be 'removed from the-bale by turning .the slots toward the bale, the wire being freed from the machine by this movement. The upper end of the frame A is extended f vibeyond the box E, and has -journaled therein ashortshaft, which carries a hat-faced: wheel .f'orsegzneut of a wheel,.-'K This wheel is arranged about at right angles to the slot in the .upper plate, d, and above and to one side of- It has a stud, g, on its lface and a pivoted dog, h, which dog has a serrated end.

vand swings agaiustsaid stud in one direction. fThi's dog is adapted to hold the end of a wire securely-by jamming'it against the stud g. A hand-1ever,L, is secured to the end of the shaft of the wheel K, andl a spring-catch, z', on the frame A locks this hand-lever in its lowest position.

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In use the spikes of the machine are forced vinto the sides of the bale while in the press at thelocation of the meeting and lapping ends i of one of the'wire bands. These ends are laid y i, y l :36.101

in the slotsof the machine, and the downwardly-projecting end ofthe wireis bent across' they face of the lower plate, d', to prevent slipping. The lever L is lthrown up and the'upwardly-projecting end of the wire is locked byV the dog h and stud g to the wheel K. The lever is then thrown down, and the wire band is drawn tightly around the bale.y It' therst4 throw of the lever does notl draw the' bandI tight enough the lever can be moved up and the wire caught at a point farther down. The lever 'is forced over the catch and holds the wire taut while the ends are 'being twisted.

The twisting is accomplished by turning the crank-brace C the desired number of times.

. The lock being completed, the wire is releasedA from the dog h and the` machine is turned out ofthe bale, as before explained, and placedin position for locking the ynext wire band.

the wires tight before the ends are twisted together) do notexpand, and therefore require 'less room for transportation, and,as before explained, the locked .ends of the wires are 'not so liable to be pulled apart. By having the twisting-gear H located on one 'side of the center the twists of one half of the lock will be 4shorter and closer together than those of the other half. The spirals 'of the lock not corresponding in pitch, the lock cannot so readily untwist as 'if such spirals were al1 ofthe same pitch.

' ported and works with less friction and wear. .4o

A The shaft Gextending the entire distance Vbetween the boxes E F, the wire ends are supported and guided throughout the length of the twisted portion, and a much smoother and uniform twist is the result. The twistingshaft, having two bearings, isalso better sup` Bales secured in this manner (by drawing v1. The combination, with a bale-tying machine whereby the ends of wire bands are twisted together, of means, substantially as dewheel, substantially as described andf shown.,y 4. In abale-tyingmacbiue, the combination',l f with the twisting and holding slots, ofthe wheel K, having 4stud'g and pivoted dog h, the lever L, and the spring-catch ,substantially afs described and shown.

5. In a bale-tying mnchine,the combination,

with theboxes E F, having holding-slots, of`

vthe slotted twisting-shaft G, journuled in'both of said boXes,and the twisting-gears D H, substantiallyy as described and shown.

6;l In a bale-tyin g machine, the combination, i

with the slottel ,twisting-shaftG and gears D AH, of the'boxes E Fr, having oblique holdingslots, and the curved spikes f, substantially as described andshown. i

7. The bale-tying machine described, having in combination the crank-brace, the bevel-- gears, theslotted shaft, slotted boxes, tightening wheel and lever, andthe holding spikes, all substantially as set` forth and shown.

. v v AUGUST STEINER. Witnesses:

F. W. KASEHAGEN,

GLAUs HUSBYE. 

